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PS - when Chopin dedicated his Bolero to her in 1834 she was Emily Jane de Flahaut. It was only in 1843 when she married Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice that she became Countess of Shelburne - and only in 1863 did she become Marchioness of Lansdowne...
Reading through the thread, the moment I saw Countess Emily Jane Mercer Elphinstone de Flahault pop up in RM's post #25127, I thought to myself "vindepays is going to be on that quicker than a Red Admiral on a buddleia"
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
Reading through the thread, the moment I saw Countess Emily Jane Mercer Elphinstone de Flahault pop up in RM's post #25127, I thought to myself "vindepays is going to be on that quicker than a Red Admiral on a buddleia"
... some of our question-posers have assumed that we might have a knowledge of modern popular music. Or of nineteen-fifties music-theatre. Or of Hollywood blockbusters.
And now we are expected to have a knowledge of New Zealand cheeses...
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